PHOENIX FLYER

Sept. 17th-21st, 2012

DMHS. The Week Ahead at DMHS.

2012: Mon. Sept. 17th, 2012: 3:30pm: SLT meeting in Media Center 5:00pm: Soccer at EGHS Tues. Sep. 18th: 5:00pm: VB at RCHS Wed. Wed. Sept. 19th: PD during planning: 1st Period: 8:30-9:30am: Chaneys room 2nd Period: 10:00-11:00am: Lambs room 3rd Period: 12:00-1:00pm: Adams room 4th Period: 2:00-3:00pm: Burris room 4:30pm: Soccer & Tennis HOME

DMHS. The Week Ahead at DMHS.

Thurs. Sept. 20th: 8:00-12:00pm: leigh & Bob GONE to NCHSAA Regional Meeting in Greensboro 6:00pm: Teacher of the Year Banquet at Deep Springs Country Club 7:00pm: JV Football HOME Fri. Sept. 21st: HAPPY FRIDAY!!! 7:30pm: Varsity Football at Williams HS Grading period ENDS Upcoming Events:
Sept. 24th: Early Release Day: Mandatory Common Core training from 1:45-3:15pm *leigh will give details later Sept. 24th: Grades DUE in NCWISE by 12:00am Sept. 28th: Report Cards GO HOME Oct. 5th: SIP DUE to Dr. Hardy Oct. 10th: Progress Reports GO HOME Oct. 15th: 3:30-4:30pm: Staff Meeting Oct. 17th: Early Release Day

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson http://bit.ly/QuK30l

23 Incredible New Technologies You Will See by 2021

By: Jason Wire http://bit.ly/PqCKDT

****This post is brought to you in partnership between Matador and our friends at Intel. Join us in the conversation on Twitter with #IntelEMP. WHEN LOOKING AT THE present as an indication of where well stand a year from nowmuch less a decade feeling optimistic may not come easy. We look out to the universe and see an infinite, lifeless abyss enfolding upon our own small pocket of civilization, while the people we look to for guidance and information seem to be little more than straight-faced bearers of bad news. Yet while we cant predict what the future holds for our unending political discourses, we can look at how far weve come with technology in merely the last decade and realize the present we know now will, very soon, find itself memorialized in nostalgia. Heres some technology emerging down the road thats poised to change your life on a much greater scale than any outcome of a political debate. 2012 Ultrabooks The last two years have been all about the tablet. Laptops, with their untouchable screens, have yet to match any tablets featherweight portability and zippy response times. However, by next year, ultraportable notebooksUltrabookswill finally be available for under $1000, bringing a complete computing experience into areas of life which, until now, have only been partially filled by smaller technologies such as tablets and smartphones. They weigh around three pounds, measure less than an inch thick, and the hard drives are flashbased, which means theyll have no moving parts, delivering zippy-quick startups and load times. The Mars Science Laboratory By August 2012, the next mission to Mars will reach the Martian surface with a new rover named Curiosity focusing on whether Mars could ever have supported life, and whether it might be able to in the future. Curiosity will be more than 5 times larger than the previous Mars rover, and the mission will cost around $2.3 billion or just about one and a half New Yankee Stadiums. The paralyzed will walk. But, perhaps not in the way that youd imagine. Using a machine-brain interface, researchers are making it possible for otherwise paralyzed humans to control neuroprosthesesessentially mechanical limbs that respond to human thoughtallowing them to walk and regain bodily control. The same systems are also being developed for the military, which one can only assume means this project wont flounder due to a lack of funding. 2013 The Rise of Electronic Paper Right now, e-paper is pretty much only used in e-readers like the Kindle, but its something researchers everywhere are eager to expand upon. Full-color video integration is the obvious next step, and as tablet prices fall, its likely newspapers will soon be fully eradicated from their current form. The good news: less deforestation, and more user control over your sources. 4G will be the new standard in cell phone networks. What this means: your phone will download data about as fast as your home computer can. While youve probably seen lots of 4G banter from the big cell providers, its not very widely available in most phones. However, both Verizon and the EU intend to do away with 3G entirely by 2013, which will essentially bring broadband-level speeds to wireless devices on cell networks. It wont do away with standard internet providers, but it will bring worldwide WiFi capabilities to anyone with a 4G data plan. The Eye of Gaia, a billion-pixel telescope will be sent into space this year to begin photographing and mapping the universe on a scale that was recently impossible. With the human eye, one can see several thousand stars on a clear night; Gaia will observe more than a billion over the course of its missionabout 1% of all the stars in the Milky Way. As well, it will look far beyond our own galaxy, even as far as the end of the (observable) universe.

2014 A 1 Terabyte SD Memory Card probably seems like an impossibly unnecessary technological investment. Many computers still dont come with that much memory, much less SD memory cards that fit in your digital camera. Yet thanks to Moores Law we can expect that the 1TB SD card will become commonplace in 2014, and increasingly necessary given the much larger swaths of data and information that were constantly exchanging every day (thanks to technologies like memristors and our increasing ever-connectedness). The only disruptive factor here could be the rise of cloud-computing, but as data and transfer speeds continue to rise, its inevitable that well need a physical place to store our digital stuff. The first around-the-world flight by a solar-powered plane will be accomplished by now, bringing truly clean energy to air transportation for the first time. Consumer models are still far down the road, but you dont need to let your imagination wander too far to figure out that this is definitely a game-changer. Consider this: it took humans quite a few milennia to figure out how to fly; and only a fraction of that time to do it with solar power. The worlds most advanced polar icebreaker is currently being developed as a part of the EUs scientific development goals and is scheduled to launch in 2014. As global average temperatures continue to climb, an understanding and diligence to the polar regions will be essential to monitoring the rapidly changing climatesand this icebreaker will be up to the task. $100 personal DNA sequencing is whats being promised by a company called BioNanomatrix, which the company founder Han Cao has made possible through his invention of the nanofluidic chip. What this means: by being able to cheaply sequence your individual genome, a doctor could biopsy a tumor, sequence the DNA, and use that information to determine a prognosis and prescribe treatment for less than the cost of a modern-day x-ray. And by specifically inspecting the cancers DNA, treatment can be applied with far more specificand effective accuracy. 2015 The worlds first zero-carbon, sustainable city in the form of Masdar City will be initially completed just outside of Abu Dhabi. The city will derive power solely from solar and other renewable resources, offer homes to more than 50,000 people. Personal 3D Printing is currently reserved for those with extremely large bank accounts or equally large understandings about 3D printing; but by 2015, printing in three dimensions (essentially personal manufacturing) will become a common practice in the household and in schools. Current affordable solutions include do-ityourself kits like Makerbot, but in four years it should look more like a compact version of the uPrint. Eventually, this technology could lead to technologies such as nanofabricators and matter replicatorsbut not for at least a few decades. 2016 Space tourism will hit the mainstream. Well, sorta. Right now it costs around $20-30 million to blast off and chill at the International Space Station, or $200,000 for a sub-orbital spaceflight from Virgin Galactic. But the market is growing faster than most realize: within five years, companies like Space Island, Galactic Suite, and Orbital Technologies may realize their company missions, with space tourism packages ranging from $10,000 up-andbacks to $1 million five-night stays in an orbiting hotel suite. The sunscreen pill will hit the market, protecting the skin as well as the eyes from UV rays. By reverseengineering the way coral reefs shield themselves from the sun, scientists are very optimistic about the possibility,

much to the dismay of sunscreen producers everywhere.

A Wooly Mammoth will be reborn among other now-extinct animals in 2016, assuming all goes according to the current plans of Japans Riken Center for Developmental Biology. If they can pull it off, expect long lines at Animal Kingdom. 2017: Portable laser pens that can seal wounds Imagine youre hiking fifty miles from the nearest human, and you slip, busting your knee wide open, gushing blood. Today, you might stand a chance of some serious blood lossbut in less than a decade you might be carrying a portable laser pen capable of sealing you back up Wolverine-style. 2018: Light Peak technology, a method of super-high-data-transfer, will enable more than 100 Gigabytes per secondand eventually whole terabytes per secondwithin everyday consumer electronics. This enables the copying of entire hard drives in a matter of seconds, although by this time the standard hard drive is probably well over 2TB. Insect-sized robot spies arent far off from becoming a reality, with the military currently hard at work to bring Mission Impossible-sized tech to the espionage playground. Secret weapon: immune to bug spray. 2019 The average PC has the power of the human brain. According to Ray Kurzweil, who has a better grip on the future than probably anyone else, the Law of Accelerating Returns will usher in an exponentially greater amount of computing power than every before. Web 3.0 What will it look like? Is it already here? Its always difficult to tell just where we stand in terms of technological chronology. But if we assume that Web 1.0 was based only upon hyperlinks, and Web 2.0 is based on the social, person-to-person sharing of links, then Web 3.0 uses a combination of socially-sourced information, curated by a highly refined, personalizable algorithm (they call it the Semantic Web). Were already in the midst of it, but its still far from its full potential. Energy from a fusion reactor has always seemed just out of reach. Its essentially the process of producing infinite energy from a tiny amount of resources, but it requires a machine that can contain a reaction that occurs at over 125,000,000 degrees. However, right now in southern France, the fusion reactor of the future is being built to power up by 2019, with estimates of full-scale fusion power available by 2030. 2020: Crash-proof cars have been promised by Volvo, to be made possible by using radar, sonar, and driver alert systems. Considering automobile crashes kill over 30,000 people in the U.S. per year, this is definitely a welcome technology. 2021: So, what should we expect in 2021? Well, 10 years ago, what did you expect to see now? Did you expect the word Friend to become a verb? Did you expect your twelve-year-old brother to stay up texting until 2am? Did you expect 140-character messaging systems enabling widespread revolutions against decades-old dictatorial regimes? The next 10 years will be an era of unprecedented connectivity; this much we know. It will build upon the social networks, both real and virtual, that weve all played a role in constructing, bringing ideas together that would have otherwise remained distant, unknown strangers. Without twitter and a steady drip of mainstream media, would we have ever so strongly felt the presence of the Arab Spring? What laughs, gasps, or loves, however fleeting, would have been lost if not for Chatroulette? Keeping in mind that as our connections grow wider and more intimate, so too will the frequency of our connectedness, and as such, your own understanding of just what kinds of relationships are possible will be stretched and revolutionized as much as any piece of hardware. Truly, the biggest changes well face will not come in the form of any visible technology; the changes that matter most, as they always have, will occur in those places we know best but can never quite see: our own hearts and minds.